{"product_id":"brother-9781635573541","title":"Brother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life.\" --Marlon James\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eHighly recommend \u003ci\u003eBrother\u003c\/i\u003e by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e WINNER--Toronto Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWINNER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNew York Public Library Best Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e PEN Open Book Awards Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrwell Prize for Political Fiction Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eBeliever \u003c\/i\u003eBook Awards Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Every sentence feels like a polished stone.\" -Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Elegiac and incendiary\" -Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dwarf star of mourning and regret\" -Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Elegant, vital, indubitably dope\" -Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An important, vital and groundbreaking book\" -Medium\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An absolutely mammoth literary talent\" -KIESE LAYMON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Riveting, composed, charged with feeling\" -MADELEINE THIEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's \u003ci\u003eBrother \u003c\/i\u003eis an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635573541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50d","brand":"David Chariandy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663812784284,"sku":"9781635573541","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_41e43777-5e73-4686-8d58-ea84ad551eb6.jpg?v=1603905139","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/brother-9781635573541","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}